The Armenian genocide a complete history

Contents......Page 5
Introduction......Page 9
Part I: Young Turks and Armenians Intertwined in the Opposition (1895-1908)......Page 15
1. Abdulhamid and the Ottoman Opposition......Page 17
2. The December 1907 Second Congress of the Anti-Hamidian Opposition: Final \"Preparations for a Revolution\"......Page 51
Part II: Young Turks and Armenians Facing the Test of Power (1908-12)......Page 57
1. Istanbul in the First Days of the Revolution: \"Our Common Religion is Freedom\"......Page 59
2. Young Turks and Armenians Facing the Test of \"The 31 March Incident\" and the Massacres in Cilicia......Page 79
3. The Ottoman Government\'s and the Armenian Authorities\' Political Responses to the Massacres in Cilicia......Page 105
4. The CUP\'s First Deviations: The 1909, 1910 and 1911 Congresses......Page 127
5. Armenian Revolutionaries and Young Turks: The Anatolian Provinces and Istanbul, 1910-12......Page 133
Part III: Young Turks and Armenians Face to Face (December 1912-March 1915)......Page 147
1. Transformations in the Committee of Union and Progress after the First Balkan War, 1913......Page 149
2. The Armenian Organizations\' Handling of the Reform Question......Page 161
3. The Establishment of the Ittihadist Dictatorship and the Plan to \"Homogenize\" Anatolia......Page 175
4. Destruction as Self-Construction: Ideology in Command......Page 197
5. Turkey\'s Entry into the War......Page 215
6. The Teskilat-i Mahsusa on the Causasian Front and the First Military Operations......Page 225
7. The First Acts of Violence......Page 233
8. Putting the Plan into Practice, and the \"Temporary Deportation Law\"......Page 251
Part IV: In the Vortex of the War: The First Phase of the Genocide......Page 269
1. The Armenian Population of the Empire on the Eve of the War: The Demographic Issue......Page 273
2. The Ottoman Armenians\' Socio-Economic Situation on the Eve of the War......Page 287
2.1 The Eradication of the Armenian Population in the Provinces of the Ottoman Empire: Reasons for a Regional Approach......Page 293
3. Deportations and Massacres in the Vilayet of Erzerum......Page 297
4. Resistance and Massacres in the Vilayet of Van......Page 327
5. Deportations and Massacres in the Vilayet of Bitlis......Page 345
6. Deportations and Massacres in the Vilayet of Dyarbekir......Page 363
7. Deportations and Massacres in the Vilayet of Harput/Mamuret ul-Aziz......Page 389
8. Deportations and Massacres in the Vilayet of Sivas......Page 437
9. Deportations and Massacres in the Vilayet of Trebizond......Page 475
10. Deportations and Massacres in the Vilayet of Angora......Page 503
11. Deportations and Massacres in the Vilayet of Kastamonu......Page 535
12. Constantinople in the Period of Deportations and Massacres......Page 541
13. Deportations in the Vilayet of Edirne and the Mutesarifat of Biga/Dardanelles......Page 553
14. Deportations in the Mutesarifat of Ismit......Page 559
15. Deportations and Massacres in the Vilayet of Bursa and the Mutesarifat of Kutahya......Page 565
16. Deportations and Massacres in the Vilayet of Aydin......Page 575
17. Deportations and Massacres in the Vilayet of Konya......Page 579
18. The Deportees on the Istanbul-Ismit-Eskisehir-Konya-Bozanti Route and Along the Trajectory of the Bagdadbahn......Page 585
19. Deportations from Zeitun and Dortyol: Repression or Genocidal Program?......Page 593
20. Deportations in the Mutesarifat of Marash......Page 599
21. Deportations in the Vilayet of Adana......Page 601
22. Deportations in the Sancaks of Ayntab ans Antakya......Page 613
23. Deportations in the Mutesarifat of Urfa......Page 621
Part V: The Second Phase of the Genocide Fall 1915-December 1916......Page 631
1. The Aleppo Sub-Directorate for Deportees: An Agency in the Service of the Party-State\'s Liquidation Policy......Page 633
2. Displaced Populations and the Main Deportations Routes......Page 637
3. Aleppo, the Center of the Genocidal System and of Relief Operations for the Deportees......Page 647
4. The Camps in Suruc, Arabpunar and Ras ul-Ayn and the Zones of Relegation in the Vilayet of Mosul......Page 655
5. The Concentration Camps along \"The Euphrates Line\"......Page 663
6. The Deportees on the Hama-Homs-Damascus-Dera\'a-Jerusalem-Amman-Maan Line......Page 681
7. The Peculiar Case of Ahmed Cemal: The Ittihad\'s Independent Spirit or an Agent of the Genocide?......Page 689
8. The Armenian Deportees on the Bagdadbahn Construction Sites in the Taurus and Amanus Mountains......Page 695
9. The Second Phase of the Genocide: The Dissolution......Page 699
Part VI: The Last Days of the Ottoman Empire: The Executioners and Their Judges Face-to-Face......Page 705
1. Grand Vizier Talat Pasha\'s New Turkey; or, Reanimating Pan-Turkism......Page 707
2. The Refounding of the Young Turk Party Shortly Before and Shortly After the Armistice......Page 723
3. The Debates in the Ottoman Parliament in the Wake of the Mudros Armistice......Page 729
4. The Mazhar Governmental Commission of Inquiry and the Creation of Courts Martial......Page 743
5. The Armenian Survivors in their Places of \"Relegation\" in the Last Days of the War......Page 751
6. The Great Powers and the Question of \"Crimes Against Humanity\"......Page 771
7. The First Trial of the Young Turk Criminals Before the Instanbul Court-Martial......Page 783
8. The Truncated Trial of the Main Young Turk Leaders......Page 791
9. The Trial of the Responsible Secretaries and the Vicissitudes of the Subsidiary Trials in the Provinces......Page 799
10. Mustafa Kemal: From the Young Turk Connection to the Construction of the Nation-State......Page 807
Conclusion......Page 815
Notes......Page 821
Index......Page 1011